Game Of Thrones Season 7: Did The Night King Really Trap Jon And Dany?

4. Bran's Vision (And The Hound's)

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If Bran can only manage to have random visions, isn't it a pretty big coincidence that he was gifted the hugely valuable vision of exactly where the White Walkers would be at the precisely most useful time for Jon and his party to go there and attack?

And isn't it even more remarkably coincidental that The Hound is given a similar vision with an even more specific geographical reference point (the arrow-head mountain), particularly when he doesn't even believe in the magic that allowed him to see? It's almost like they were both gifted extremely handy visions in order to narrow the possibilities of where Jon would lead his group.

Putting aside the fact that The Hound's vision being influenced by the Night King would mean he's also the Lord Of Light (or they're in cahoots), it's far less outrageous that the Night King could influence Bran's. After they touched, there is a link between the characters (hence the King being able to see the warged ravens Bran sent to spy on him). Why wouldn't that connection go both ways and allow the Night King to feed Bran visions to trap his allies (just as Voldemort does to Harry Potter in The Order Of The Phoenix)?

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